Pasco: Judge rejects sheriff’s office’s attempt to dismiss lawsuit challenging ‘predictive policing’ program

A federal judge rejected the Pasco County Sheriff’s motion to dismiss a case against Sheriff Chris Nocco’s Orwellian “predictive policing” program, the Institute of Justice said in a release Wednesday. In a lawsuit filed by Pasco County families back in March, Nocco was accused of punishing people “for crimes they have not committed and may never commit” – in a

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Why Blanket Registration of Youth as Sex Offenders is Bad Public Policy

We praise children for their curiosity. How else are they to learn to navigate the world? But sometimes a child’s curiosity leads to a lifetime of punishment and ostracism. Sadly, this is the harsh reality of many children who were charged with a sex offense. Although it can be a difficult notion to accept, children may exhibit sexual behavior as

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“Nobody is as bad as their worst decision, nor as good as their best success.”

“Nobody is as bad as their worst decision, nor as good as their best success.” That was the quote from the attorney for a Judge who plead guilty to a federal child pornography indictment (yes, you read that correctly… the Judge is the one that plead guilty). We don’t ordinarily publicize these convictions, but we are highlighting this one for

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Something MUST BE DONE to help registrants with dementia.

An article came out today in Patch (the publication that is notorious for broadcasting the names of registrants during Halloween) with the title, “Missing Sex Offender Last Seen Tuesday Morning: Sheriff”. I normally don’t click on links to Patch because I don’t want to give their site more traffic, but I was curious. Here’s what the story said: XXX, who

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Californians can petition to be removed from the sex offender registry

Prior to 2021, California was one of just four states with a lifetime sex offender registry. The others were South Carolina, Alabama and Florida. SB 384 is the legislation responsible for the tier system. It was passed in 2017 and signed into law by former governor Jerry Brown. It was co-authored by State Senator Scott Wiener who explained why change

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The Devolution of Florida’s Sex Offender Registry since Smith vs. Doe in 2003

(Weekly Update #163) Dear Members and Advocates, This week’s update is somewhat of a continuation of last week’s. Last week, I shared an important revelation; that Smith v. Doe DID NOT find that registration is not punishment. It only found that the pre-2003 version of Alaska’s registry was not punitive. Following up on that concept and in anticipation of our

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